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My favorite one: **It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.** -- Epicurus

Right now I'm drinking karkade tea. Eat nothing, feel bad -> Yesterday I overdozed myself with vodka. I can't recall **how**, but I managed to drink up the whole bottle (0.5L), as Bloody Marys, of course (I really can't drink the neat vodka, by no means).

Helloa, Pepsi Generation! As to me I got tired of any movies, long time ago. Hate all of them, soviet, american, eastern european, UK's etc etc. For some vague reason I "hate" especially british movies. Apart from... Charlie Chaplin. His "The Gold Rush" (no words). In 70s I watched it …

Sooner or later any kind of music become boring.

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I hate an american expression: nothing personal - just a business

The best way to success is to solve concrete problems on numerous online contesters

Her poetry is amazing, no words. About her I learned only yesterday (on the day of her death), from main Russian TV channel.

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cold here means chronic obstructive lung dis ease

... popular to the extent as of among russian prisoners, who brew from it so called "tchifir" - extremely concentrated and hence extremely strong tea. Actually it is a kind of (soft) addiction and the tchifirists are true tea-addicts.

Why "chile" instead of "child"? Is it a kind of slang?

What do you think on this fact?

When I worked I each labour day , 5 out of 7, hiked from my workplace to my house abt 1h 20m, and in a very fast pace. 6 years in a row.

"Down In The Hole" from "Emotional Rescue" (1980), an album by The Rolling Stones. Listen to this their album for 32 last years.

> We believe that we have in effect discovered a fundamental 'Achilles heel' for all cancers -- Dr Timothy Bates http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm

I know almost nothing about Level of Engineering Education in India, but I know that India has a lot of just excellent engineers.

In context like **He began to play fatback/swing-based R&B**

For the hundredth time I'm listening to **Blackstone Legacy** album (1971) by Afro-American jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1989) and I like it exclusively. What kind of music I **don't** like is any sentimental music, so called "smooth" jazz, swing (in the 21st century it sounds too moth-eaten), 99.999% of rock …

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/iaft-ssc022411.php > > **48 percent of patients in study quit before diagnosis, most before onset of symptoms** > > Many longtime smokers quit spontaneously with little effort shortly before their lung cancer is diagnosed, leading some researchers to speculate that sudden cessation may be a symptom of lung cancer. > …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_smoking > Studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking.[1] For example, in the United States, 80% or more of schizophrenics smoke, compared to 20% of the general population in 2006.[2] > Though it is well established that smoking is more prevalent among schizophrenics than the …

<URL SNIPPED> What do you, native BE/AmE English language speakers, think of it?

and originated from verb "to snap"? (let's forget about the fish named Snapper)

It's the title of an instrumental album -> no any words in it.

"0-transportation" sounds even better

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany > Adolf Hitler was a heavy smoker in his early life — he used to smoke 25 to 40 cigarettes daily — but gave up the habit, concluding that it was a waste of money. In later years, Hitler viewed smoking as "decadent" and "the wrath of the Red …

http://funkybee.narod.ru/misc/08-inamorata_and_narration_by_conrad_roberts.039.mp3 Could you plz (those whos mom's toung is American/British English) **put into text what** Conrad Roberts narrates? *It's 0.5 minute.* I can understand ~50% of it only.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22302-can-castration-really-prolong-a-mans-life.html?full=true&print=true **What do other experts in ageing say?** "When testosterone is lacking, the demand for amino acids to support cell proliferation and muscle-building is decreased, and it's thought that the body then shifts the use of these basic building blocks towards cellular defence and stress resistance," says Holly Brown-Borg, who …